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Anker’s Eufy erased these 10 privacy promises instead of answering our questions
- zeristor 4y agoI am surprised that people are surprised. Claims are easy to make, there different degrees of evidence, and Eufy failed at a low bar. to some extent if they had a bug bounty for reported issues that with give some confidence; albeit confidence to the small proportion of people who are wary of claims.
- roywiggins 4y agoThe article doesn't seem particularly surprised and neither do any of the comments here.
- KyeRussell 4y agoYep. It’s (similarly) easy to smugly say “I told you so” to everything.
- stevenhubertron 4y agoIs the VLC stream on the local network or publically available? If it's just on the local I don't see the issue?
- VerifiedJoseph 4y agopublic internet from an S3 bucket https://twitter.com/Paul_Reviews/status/1596048648416423936 https://twitter.com/Paul_Reviews/status/1596048648416423936
- VerifiedJoseph 4y agoThey make surveillance cameras and "smart" home tech. Two types of product that are anti-privacy when not run completely locally. Not surprising at all.
- sockaddr 4y agoBought one of their doorbells that claimed to work offline. Nope. It refused to function without an internet connection to contact a server in China. And if you disconnected it via firewall rules it would audibly (very loud) complain that it was disconnected. Eufy. Never again.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoThey are pulling a TikTok. When they got caught red handed and called out they moved their privacy goal post to "Oh... well... your data is safe with us! The CCP will never see it. We promise"
- tinus_hn 4y ago‘Privacy is a lost case anyway! Why are you still even bothering?’
- AdmiralAsshat 4y agoIf they think this is going to stop the class action lawsuit, they are sorely mistaken.
- ct0 4y agoAnkers charging products haven't let me down, yet. Is there an alternative to those chairing products that isnt CCP managed?